The 1925–26Ottawa Senators season was the club's 41st season of play and ninth season in the NHL. The Senators placed first during the regular season but were upset in the playoffs by the Montreal Maroons.

The Senators welcomed the Stanley Cup champion Victoria Cougars to town for two exhibition games on November 19 and 21, with proceeds to the Ottawa Humane Society. Ottawa won both games, 6–2 and 2–0.[1]

Ottawa, who missed the playoffs the previous season, would go on to finish with a league best 24–8–4 record, and earn a bye in the first round of the playoffs, however, they were upset by the Montreal Maroons in the NHL final, losing the two-game total-goal series 2–1. Cy Denneny would once again lead the club offensively, scoring 24 goals and 36 points, while Frank Nighbor would win the Lady Byng Trophy for the 2nd straight season.

The Senators went against the Maroons in a two-game total-goals series for the NHL championship and lost two goals to one, the Maroons had Punch Broadbent and goaltender Clint Benedict, two former Senators stars in the lineup, who would figure prominently in the series.

By placing first, the Senators had a bye to the NHL Championship round against the second-place Maroons who had defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, at home in the first game, the Maroons tied the Senators 1–1. Former Senator Punch Broadbent scored at 8 minutes of the second period to put the Maroons ahead, the lead lasted until King Clancy tied the game with ten seconds left.[3] In the second game, held at Ottawa, the Maroons took the series with a 1–0 shutout victory to win the NHL championship. Babe Siebert on an individual rush, scored off his own rebound at the six-minute mark of the second period. Cy Denneny appeared to tie the score a minute later, but the play was off-side. The Maroons held off the attack of the Senators the rest of the way in front of a record attendance of 10,525.[4]

After the playoff, the Senators welcomed the Saskatoon Sheiks for a pair of exhibition games on April 1 and April 3, the series matched the two leagues' runner-up teams. The Senators won the first game, played under NHL rules 4–3, the second game was played under WHL rules and the Sheiks won 7–5.[5] The Sheiks were on an exhibition tour and played in Montreal on April 4 against the Canadiens in a benefit game for Georges Vezina's family.[6]

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Ottawa Senators
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The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the Senators play their home games at the 18,694 seat Canadian Tire Centre which opened in 1996. Founded and established by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the team is the second NHL franchise to use the Ottawa Senators name. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, had a history, winning 11 Stanley Cups. On December 6,1990, after a public campaign by Firestone, the NHL awarded a new franchise. The current team owner is Eugene Melnyk, and in 2016, the club has been regularly represented in the top half in attendance in the NHL. Ottawa had been home to the original Senators, a founding NHL franchise, the NHL team was unsuccessful in St. Louis, and planned to return to Ottawa, but the NHL decided instead to suspend the franchise and transfer the players to other NHL teams. His firm, Terrace Investments, did not have the assets to finance the expansion fee and the team. Public support was high and the group would secure over 11,000 season ticket pledges, on December 12,1990, the NHL approved a new franchise for Firestones group, to start play in the 1992–93 season. The new team hired former NHL player Mel Bridgman, who had no previous NHL management experience, when Sutter was eventually signed to coach the Boston Bruins, Ottawa signed Rick Bowness, the man Sutter replaced in Boston. The new Senators played their first game on October 8,1992, the Senators defeated the Canadiens 5–3 in one of the few highlights that season. The Senators had aimed low and considered the 1992–93 season a small success, the long term plan was to finish low in the standings for its first few years in order to secure high draft picks and eventually contend for the Stanley Cup. Bridgman was fired after one season and Team President Randy Sexton took over the general manager duties, Firestone himself soon left the team and Rod Bryden emerged as the new owner. The strategy of aiming low and securing a high position did not change. The Senators finished last overall for the three seasons. Alexei Yashin, the teams first-ever draft selection from 1992, emerged as one of the NHLs brightest young stars, as the 1995–96 season began, star centre Alexei Yashin refused to honour his contract and did not play. Rick Bowness was fired in late 1995 and was replaced by the Prince Edward Island Senators head coach Dave Allison, Allison would fare no better than his predecessor, and the team would stumble to a 2–22–3 record under him. Sexton himself was fired and replaced by Pierre Gauthier, the former assistant GM of Anaheim, Martin outlasted several general managers and a change in ownership

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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game

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Alex Currie
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Alexander John Currie, was head coach of the original Ottawa Senators for the 1925–26 NHL season. As a player for the Senators, he won the Stanley Cup in the 1910–11 NHA season, born in Ottawa, Currie graduated to senior hockey with the Ottawa Primroses of the Ottawa City Hockey League in 1907, joining the Ottawa Emmetts in 1908. He was loaned to the Quebec Bulldogs for one game that season, the following season, he did not play hockey. He returned to the NHA in 1913 with the Montreal Wanderers for one season, starting in 1914, Currie became coach of various teams in the Ottawa area. He coached in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators in the 1925–26 season, Currie died from drowning on October 4,1951

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Captain (ice hockey)
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In ice hockey the captain is the player designated by his team as the only person authorized to speak with the game officials regarding rule interpretations when he is on the ice. At most levels of each team must designate one captain. The captain wears a C on his sweater, while the alternate captains wear an A, as with most team sports that designate captains, the captain is usually a well-respected player and a de facto team leader. The captain is a dressing room leader, and also represents the players concerns to management, NHL teams need not designate the same player as captain from game to game, though most teams do. For instance, in the 1985–86, when Boston Bruins captain Terry OReilly retired, Ray Bourque, Middleton wore the C during home games and Bourque for road games during the seasons first half, and the two switched for the second half. This arrangement continued until Middleton retired in 1988 and Bourque became the sole captain, some teams name two or three captains for a season. Some teams rotate captains rather than one for an extended period of time. During each NHL game, however, only one player can officially be designated as captain. Captains are selected by different means, in instances, teams have held votes among their players to choose a team captain, while on other occasions. Captains are often due to their seniority in the game. However, franchise players—current or emerging stars—have also been named captains, though not required, many captains have previously served as alternate captains of their team. The NHL introduced a rule prohibiting the goaltender from being a captain following the 1947–48 season, in the NCAA, there is no position-based restriction on the team captain. Teams may designate alternate captains, also erroneously called assistant captains. Alternate captains wear the letter A on their jerseys in the manner that team captains wear the C. In the NHL, teams may appoint a captain and up to two alternate captains, or they may appoint three alternate captains and no captain. A team commonly has three alternate captains when the team has not selected a captain, or when the captain is injured. International and USA amateur rules do not allow this, they stipulate that each team shall appoint a Captain, if the team chooses to not appoint a captain, they are not permitted to appoint a fourth alternate captain. When the captain is off the ice or unavailable for the game, NHL teams may choose alternate captains from game to game or appoint regular alternate captains for the season

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Cy Denneny
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His brother Corbett Denneny also played in the NHL. Cy Denneny was born in Farrans Point, Ontario, near Cornwall and he was the son of James Israel Denneny who was a top lacrosse player in the late 19th century and was descended from the Dennenys of County Monaghan, Ireland. Denneny played senior hockey in Cornwall, starting with the Cornwall Sons of England of the Lower Ottawa Valley hockey league in 1909–10 and his professional playing career began with the Toronto Ontarios/Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association in 1914. He had tried out for the Montreal Canadiens in 1912 but failed to make the team and he was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 1916 and he would play with the Senators until 1928. He was member of four Senators Stanley Cup-winning teams, in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927, with the Senators during the 1917–18 season, Denneny set an NHL record by opening the season with four straight multi-goal games. Though the record still stands, it was tied in 2013 by San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau, Denneny was sold to Boston in 1928, where he would be the playing-coach of the Bruins 1929 Stanley Cup-winner. In 1929, Denneny retired to become an NHL on-ice official, in 1932, he re-joined the Senators as head coach, but the team was in decline due to financial difficulties which forced management to sell top players in order to survive. The team finished last and Denneny was not retained as coach, Denneny was one of the top scorers in the NHL from 1917 through 1925. While leading the league in scoring during the 1923–24 NHL season, he did so by recording 22 goals and one assist for a total of 23 points, when he retired, he was the all-time top scorer in NHL history. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959, in 1998, he was ranked number 62 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. He was the first and remains the fastest player in NHL history to score 200 goals. During a six-week span in the 1920–21 NHL season, Cy and his brother Corbett, despite not being a swift skater, Denneny had one of the most deceptive and accurate shots in the league, which enabled him to achieve his scoring feats so rapidly. He was one of the first known players to use opposing defencemen as screens, Denneny was also one of the very first players to use a curved blade, which he used to take high-rising shots as well as sinkers that would fool goaltenders. He was a physical player who often acted as a bodyguard for his more passive linemates, Jack Darragh. His first wife Melvina died and Denneny remarried and he was the father of two daughters with his second wife Isobel. After Denneny retired from hockey, he worked for the Canadian federal government and he retired from civil service in 1959. He died on September 10,1970 and is buried in Ottawas Pinecrest Cemetery

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Ottawa Auditorium
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The Ottawa Auditorium was a 7, 500-seat arena located in Ottawa, Ontario. It was located in Downtown Ottawa at the corner of OConnor and Argyle Streets, built primarily for ice hockey, the arena was also used for sports events, assemblies and musical concerts. It replaced The Arena, built in 1907, the first NHL game held there was played on December 26,1923 between Ottawa and the Montreal Canadiens, before 8300 fans, in which Howie Morenz scored his first NHL goal. The building was state-of-the-art for its time, for performances and assemblies, the arena had a concert stage that would be assembled at one end of the rink, facing the length of the rink. This design matched the shape of the rink at The Arena, at the time of construction, the consortium took over the ownership of the hockey club as well. In 1924, Dey sold his share of the consortium and exited the rink business ending the Dey familys ownership of ice rinks in Ottawa dating back to the 1870s, in 1925, Gorman exited hockey in Ottawa, moving to New York to manage the New York Americans. Gorman sold his share to Ahearn, picking up ownership of the Connaught race track in Aylmer, by 1930, the Auditorium was losing money as the Ottawa Senators losses increased. The Auditorium Limited debts to the Ahearn family would lead to the Senators NHL team suspending operations, by 1934, the Senators NHL franchise was moved to St. Louis, Missouri, becoming the St. Louis Eagles. The Senators were continued as an amateur hockey team playing out of the Auditorium. The move to St. Louis was not a success, the franchise was still a drain on the Auditorium and was folded by the NHL in 1935. In 1936, the Auditorium went into receivership and was controlled by the Royal Securities Corporation until 1945, when Gorman returned and purchased the building, Gorman would remain an owner until he died in 1962. The arena was demolished in 1967 and replaced at that location by the YMCA-YWCA building and its replacement, the Ottawa Civic Centre opened in 1967. It is located on Bank Street in The Glebe at Lansdowne Park and it was the home arena of the original NHL Senators from 1923 to 1934. The game was attended by the Governor General Lord Byng and Lady Byng, the Senators won the 1927 Stanley Cup in the Auditorium, the decisive game on April 13,1927 against the Boston Bruins. The April 13 game at the Auditorium was the last Stanley Cup finals game in Ottawa until the June 2,2007 and it is known that one fan, Russell Williams, attended both games, both won by Ottawa. It also held the game of the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between Montreal and Calgary because of its then state-of-the-art artificial ice, and the Montreal Forum had not yet been built. After 1934, the NHL franchise relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, the club won the Allan Cup Canadian amateur championship in 1949. From 1945 until 1954 the team played in the Quebec Senior Hockey League, after the Senators folded in 1954, attributed to the rise of televised ice hockey matches, the professional Hull-Ottawa Canadiens played in the Auditorium

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Goal (ice hockey)
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In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the attacking the goal scored upon. The term goal may also refer to the structure in which goals are scored, the ice hockey goal is rectangular in shape, the front frame of the goal is made of steel tube painted red and consists of two vertical goalposts and a horizontal crossbar. A net is attached to the back of the frame to catch pucks that enter the goal, the entire goal is considered an inbounds area of the playing surface, and it is legal to play the puck behind the goal. Under NHL rules, the opening of the goal is 72 inches wide by 48 inches tall, the object of the game of hockey is to score more goals than the opposing team. Goaltenders and defencemen are concerned primarily with keeping the team from scoring a goal. For a goal to be scored, the puck must entirely cross the line between the posts and under the crossbar of the goal frame. The NHL abolished this rule starting in the 1999-2000 season after the disputed triple-overtime goal in the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, brett Hull of the Dallas Stars scored the series-clinching goal against the Buffalo Sabres. On video replay, it was clear that Hulls skate was in the prior to the puck. Typically, the last player on the team to touch the puck before it goes into the net is credited with scoring that goal. Zero, one, or two players on the goal-scoring team may also credited with an assist for helping their teammate to score the goal. If another player on the goal-scoring team touched the puck to help score the goal before the player touched it without an opposing player intervening. If yet another player on the team also touched the puck before that without an opposing player intervening. However, a rule says that one point can be credited to any one player on a goal scored. Usually on a team, forwards score the most goals and get the most points, although defensemen can score goals. In professional play, goaltenders only occasionally get an assist, the number of goals scored is a closely watched statistic. Each year the Rocket Richard Trophy is presented to the NHL player to have scored the most goals, the trophy is named after Maurice Richard, the first player to score 50 goals in a season, at a time when the NHL regular season was only 50 games. The player to have scored the most goals in an NHL season is Wayne Gretzky

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Frank Nighbor
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An excellent defensive forward, his poke check, backchecking and bodychecking abilities thwarted enemy forwards scoring attempts. For his somewhat high penalty totals, he was a clean player, for his contributions on the ice, Nighbor was the first player ever to be awarded the Hart Trophy and the first to be awarded the Lady Byng Trophy. Nighbor first played professionally for the Port Arthur Bearcats of the Northern Ontario Hockey League in 1911, fellow Pembroke native Harry Cameron was invited to play for Port Arthur but refused to go without Nighbor. The club agreed to bring Nighbor along, but they left him on the bench until injuries gave him an opportunity to play and he made the most of his opportunity by registering six goals in his first appearance. In 1912, he joined the new Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA where he scored 25 goals in 18 games and he had his best season in 1916–17, scoring 41 goals in 19 games, finishing tied for the league lead with Joe Malone. In 1919–20 he scored 26 goals and 15 assists in just 23 games, then had a further 6 goals in 5 playoff games, Nighbor would win the Stanley Cup again with Ottawa in 1921,1923, and 1927. Late in the 1925 season, Lady Byng, wife of the Governor-General of Canada and she showed Nighbor an ornate trophy and asked him if he thought the NHL would accept it as an award for its most gentlemanly player. Nighbor said he thought it would be a good idea—and to his surprise, Lady Byng presented him the trophy on the spot, a year earlier, he had been the first winner of the Hart Trophy. In 1929–30, Nighbor was traded to Toronto, as part of the sale of the failing Senators for Danny Cox. He played 22 games for the Maple Leafs and retired in the off-season, Nighbor was considered a master of the sweep check, as well as the poke check, an almost entirely different action, taking the puck off the opponents stick. He was skilled and crafty with the puck and a good scorer. Nighbor coached for the Buffalo Bisons and London Tecumsehs of the International League and the New York Rovers of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. He would later turn to a business he was a partner in. Nighbor died of cancer on April 13,1966 in Pembroke, Nighbor was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. He has also inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998 he was ranked number 100 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, in March 2010, at a Quebec auction, an American collector paid $33,000 USD to secure Frank Nighbors game-worn Ottawa Senators sweater from the 1926–27 season. A street in Ottawas Kanata neighbourhood is named in memory of Nighbor - Frank Nighbor Place, the Top 100, NHL players of all time. Players, the ultimate A-Z guide of everyone who has played in the NHL. Doubleday Canada. Notes Frank Nighbors biography at Legends of Hockey Frank Nighbors career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database Frank Nighbor at Find a Grave

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Penalty (ice hockey)
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A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, Penalties are called and enforced by the referee, or in some cases the linesmen. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice, the opposing team is said to be on a power play, having one player more on the ice than the short-handed team. The short handed team is said to be penalty killing until the penalty expires, while standards vary somewhat between leagues, most leagues recognize several common degrees of penalty, as well as common infractions. The statistic used to track penalties was traditionally called Penalty Infraction Minutes and it represents the total assessed length of penalties each player or team has accrued. The first codified rules of hockey, known as the Halifax Rules, were brought to Montreal by James Creighton, who organized the first indoor hockey game in 1875. Two years later, the Montreal Gazette documented the first set of Montreal Rules, the only penalty outlined by these rules was that play would be stopped, and a bully would take place. Revised rules in 1886 mandated that any player in violation of rules would be given two warnings, but on a third offence would be removed from the game. It was not until 1904 that players were ruled off the ice for infractions, at that time, a referee could assess a two-, three- or five-minute penalty, depending on the severity of the foul. By 1914, all penalties were five minutes in length, reduced to three minutes two years later, and the player was given an additional fine. When the National Hockey League was founded in 1917, it mandated that a team could not substitute for any player who was assessed a penalty, the penalty was shortened to two minutes for the 1921–22 season, while five- and ten-minute penalties were added two years later. A minor penalty is the least severe type of penalty, a minor penalty is two minutes in length. The offending player is sent to the penalty box and in most cases, if the offending player is the goaltender or a team is given a bench minor penalty, then any skater who was on the ice at the time of the infraction may serve the penalty. A team with an advantage in players will go on a power play. If they score a goal during this time, the penalty will end, in hockeys formative years, teams were shorthanded for the entire length of a minor penalty. The NHL changed this rule following the 1955–56 season where the Montreal Canadiens frequently scored multiple goals on one power play. Most famous was a game on November 5,1955, when Jean Béliveau scored three goals in 44 seconds, all on the power play, in a 4–2 victory over the Boston Bruins. Coincidental minor penalties occur when a number of players from each team are given a minor penalty at the same time

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King Clancy
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Francis Michael King Clancy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators and he was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams and won All-Star honours. After he retired in 1937, he remained in hockey, becoming a coach for the Montreal Maroons, Clancy next worked as a referee for the NHL. He joined the Maple Leafs organization and worked in the organization as a coach, on January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Clancy was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Clancys nickname King originates from his father, who was the first King Clancy, at the time the football was not snapped as is done today, but was heeled back from the line. Franks father was good at this and was named King of the Heelers or King for short. This nickname was transferred to Frank. Although he was one of the smallest defencemen of his era, he was tough and fast, according to Brian McFarlane, it was said that King Clancy started a thousand fights and never won one. During a March 31,1923, Stanley Cup game against the Edmonton Eskimos, in the third period, goaltender Clint Benedict was given a two-minute penalty. At the time, goalies served their own penalties, not wanting to leave the net open, Clancy played goal for the two minutes Benedict was gone. In his second season with the Leafs, Clancy helped his team win the Stanley Cup, after a slow start to the 1936–37 season, Clancy announced his retirement six games into the season. He retired as the top scoring defenceman in NHL history, with 136 career goals, in Clancys last game, he represented the Montreal Maroons at the Howie Morenz Memorial Game in 1937. The season after his retirement as a player, Clancy briefly coached the Montreal Maroons before beginning an 11-year stint as an NHL referee, in 1949, the Montreal Canadiens hired Clancy to coach their American Hockey League farm team, the Cincinnati Mohawks. He was released after two losing seasons, and rejoined the Maple Leaf family as coach of the Leafs AHL affiliate, the Pittsburgh Hornets. The Hornets had two outstanding seasons under Clancy, winning the Calder Cup as league champions in 1951–52, and nearly repeating the following year, on the strength of that performance, Clancy was made coach of the Maple Leafs for the 1953–54 season. He held the job for three years, but the team struggled, with each season worse than the one before it. He was then given the title assistant general manager by his friend, Conn Smythe, Clancy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. He remained assistant general manager-coach through the 1960s, working under Punch Imlach, when Imlach was fired in 1969, Clancy initially said that hed leave with him, but he was persuaded to stay with the Leafs and was made vice-president

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Goals against average
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Goals Against Average is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender. GAA is analogous to a pitchers earned run average. In Japanese, the translation is used for both GAA and ERA, because of this. For ice hockey, it is calculated per game by dividing the number of goals against by the number of minutes played in the game then multiplied by 60. For a season, divide the number of goals against by the result of the total number of minutes played multiplied by 60. Alternatively, take the number of goals against, multiply that by 60 minutes, when calculating GAA, overtime goals and time on ice are included, whereas empty net and shootout goals are not. It is typically given to two decimal places, the top goaltenders in the National Hockey League currently have a GAA of about 1. 85-2.10, although the measure of a good GAA changes as different playing styles come and go. The top goaltenders in the National Lacrosse League however, currently have a GAA of about 10.00, at their best, elite NCAA water polo goalies have a GAA between 3.00 and 5.00

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Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team

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Hamilton Tigers
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The Hamilton Tigers were a professional ice hockey team, and a member of the National Hockey League, based in Hamilton, Ontario, that played from 1920–1925. The Tigers were formed from the sale of the Quebec Bulldogs NHL franchise to Hamilton interests, after years of struggling, the franchise finished first in the league in the 1924-25 NHL season. However, a strike after the season resulted in the franchises dissolution. The players contracts were sold to New York City interests to stock the expansion New York Americans, a name-sake amateur team existed prior, and during, the NHL teams existence and a minor league professional team named the Hamilton Tigers existed from 1926 until 1930. The origins of the team go back to the old Quebec Hockey Club team, originally an amateur team, it turned professional in 1909. That season proved to be a one, despite the presence of Joe Malone the club only finished with four wins in 24 games. After the 1919–20 season, the NHL took back the Quebec franchise and sold the team to the Abso Pure Ice Company of Hamilton, the club was moved to Hamilton for the 1920–21 season and renamed the Hamilton Tigers. This was done to prevent the startup of a rival league, at the time, the NHL had no teams in the United States and no teams in Western Canada. Hamilton was the fifth-largest city in the country and third-largest in Central Canada, percy Thompson, a part-owner and manager of the Barton Street Arena, would be the manager of the team. The move to Hamilton did not improve the teams record, as a result, the NHL ordered the other three teams to supply players to the Tigers. Even with Malone managing to score 30 goals in only 20 games, the next three seasons were just as dreadful as the first one. The Tigers finished dead last every year, making a total of 5 straight with last place finishes, during these dreadful years, the Tigers attempted a rebuilding phase to bring the team up to par. After the 1921–22 NHL season, they hired Art Ross as their new coach and made many changes, including trading superstar Malone to the Montreal Canadiens for Bert Corbeau. The fans were outraged at seeing Malone leave, but the Tigers felt vindicated when Malone — nearing the end of his career — only scored one goal in twenty games in one season for Montreal. Prior to the 1922–23 season, the NHL would hold its governors meeting at the Royal Connaught Hotel on King Street and this year saw the Tigers achieve a team high of nine wins in 24 games. It was the season, though, that saw the results of the previous years wheelings and dealings. With yet another new coach, the Hamilton Tigers roared off to an impressive 10–4–1 start in the 1924–25 NHL season. Only halfway through the season, they had more wins than any season in their NHL history

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New York Americans
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The New York Americans, colloquially known as the Amerks, were a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals twice. While it was the first team in New York City, it was eclipsed by the second, the New York Rangers, the team operated as the Brooklyn Americans during the 1941–42 season before suspending operations in 1942 due to the World War II and long-standing financial difficulties. The demise of the club marked the beginning of the NHLs Original Six era from 1942 to 1967, the teams overall regular season record was 255–402–127. In 1923, Thomas Duggan received options on three NHL franchises for the United States, after selling one to Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, which became the Boston Bruins in 1924, Duggan arranged with Tex Rickard to have a team in Madison Square Garden. Rickard agreed, but play was delayed until the new Garden was built in 1925, in April of that year, Duggan and Bill Dwyer, New York Citys most-celebrated prohibition bootlegger, were awarded the franchise for New York. Somewhat fortuitously given the shortage of players, the Hamilton Tigers, however, the suspensions were quietly lifted in the off-season. Soon afterward, Dwyer duly bought the rights to the Tiger players for $75,000. He gave the players healthy raises—in some cases. Just before the season, Dwyer announced his team would be named the New York Americans and their original jerseys were covered with stars and stripes, patterned after the American flag. Although he acquired the Tigers players, Dwyer did not acquire the franchise, as a result, the NHL does not consider the Americans to be a continuation of the Tigers—or for that matter, of the Tigers predecessors, the Quebec Bulldogs. The Americans entered the league in the 1925–26 season along with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Americans and Pirates became the second and third American-based teams in the NHL, following Adams Boston Bruins, who began play the previous season. Success did not come easily for the Americans, even though their roster was substantively the same that finished first the previous year, in the Americans first season they finished fifth overall with a record of 12–22–4. However, they did prove a success at the box office, so much so that the following season Garden management landed a team of its own, a clause in the Amerks lease with the Garden required them to support any bid for the Garden to acquire an NHL franchise. The Garden had promised Dwyer that it would never exercise that option, however, when the Garden opted to seek its own team after all, the Amerks had little choice but to agree. They were thus doomed to a history as New York Citys second team. The 1926–27 season saw the Americans continue to struggle, finishing 17–25–2, part of the problem was that they were placed in the Canadian Division in defiance of all geographic reality, resulting in a larger number of train trips to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. Meanwhile, the Rangers won the American Division title, the 1928–29 NHL season saw the Amerks sign star goaltender Roy Worters from the Pittsburgh Pirates

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Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)
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The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1925–26 to 1929–30. The nickname comes from the team also based in the city. For the 1930–31 season, the moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Pirates are traced back to the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the US Amateur Hockey Association, the Yellow Jackets owner was Roy Schooley, a former referee. Even though the team won the USAHA Championship in 1924 and 1925 and his team was then sold to attorney James F. Callahan. Pittsburgh was granted a franchise by the National Hockey League on November 7,1925, Callahan then renamed his team the Pittsburgh Pirates, after he received permission from Barney Dreyfuss, the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The Pirates were assigned to what would later be called the NHLs American Division, with the Boston Bruins and these two franchises were the only other American teams in the NHL at the time. The Duquesne Gardens, located in the citys Oakland neighborhood, served as the home arena. The Pirates, dubbed the Mighty Steel City Sextet in the Pittsburgh Press, were leftovers from the former Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets. Ten former Yellow Jacket players would play for the Pirates, the Pirates began play during the 1925–26 NHL season. On November 26,1925, Thanksgiving night, the Pirates defeated the Boston Bruins, 2-1, on the road in their very first NHL game, defenceman and captain Lionel Conacher scored Pittsburghs first-ever NHL goal. Conacher beat Boston goaltender Charles Stewart at the 17,50 mark of the period to tie the game at 1-1. Two nights later, on November 28,1925, the Pirates stunned the Montreal Canadiens, the 1-0 loss to the Pirates marked the final game for legendary Habs goaltender Georges Vezina. Vezina started the game with severe chest pains and left the game during the first intermission with a high fever and he died four months later from tuberculosis. Meanwhile, the first NHL game ever played in Pittsburgh was on December 2,1925, the Pirates lost to the New York Americans in overtime, 2-1. Conacher scored the goal for Pittsburgh at 9,15 of the second period. In 36 games, the Pirates posted an impressive 19-16-1 record for third best in the league, with a 0.542 winning percentage, that first season would arguably be the teams best. They made the playoffs their inaugural year, during the playoffs, the Pirates faced the Montreal Maroons in a best-of-three, semi-final Stanley Cup playoff series

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Tommy Gorman
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Gorman was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He was one of six born to Thomas Patrick Gorman. He was a page boy as a youth, but sports were his love. He was the youngest member of the Canadian lacrosse team won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He then played professionally for a number of seasons, Gorman became a sports writer at the Ottawa Citizen, eventually becoming the sports editor. He worked at the newspaper until 1921, even though he had never played hockey, Mr. Gorman was a talented evaluator of talent. Ted Dey, principal owner of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association, had trouble recruiting players for the 1916–17 season and he did it so capably that he was hired as secretary-treasurer. Gorman became the manager and part-owner of the Senators at that time and he helped lead the team to Stanley Cups in 1920,1921, and 1923. He sold his interest in the Senators in 1925 to Frank Ahearn and became manager-coach of the New York Americans and he resigned from the Americans in 1929 to get involved in horse racing. He managed the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico from 1929 until 1932, in 1932, Gorman brought the horse Phar Lap to Mexico where the horse won the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap before dying under mysterious circumstances in San Francisco. When the president of Agua Caliente sold the racetrack in 1932 and he took the team from last place in their division in 1932–33 to their first Stanley Cup victory in 1934—despite scoring the fewest goals of any NHL team. Ten days after the Cup victory, Gorman resigned after a dispute with the owner and he went to Montreal as their manager-coach and helped the Montreal Maroons to their final Cup in 1935, thus becoming the first coach to win consecutive Stanley Cups with different teams. Gorman coached the Maroons until the club folded in 1938, in 1940, he became general manager of the Montreal Canadiens and lead them to Cup victories in 1944 and 1946. He is the person to manage four different teams to championships. No other General Manager in the history of the NHL, Major League Baseball, one of his flops was after he became manager-coach of the Montreal Maroons when he booked evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson at the Montreal Forum. No one wanted to be saved, he explained, however, some of his better promotions came when he was the Montreal Canadiens general manager. He had Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra perform at the Forum, after retiring as general manager of the Canadiens in 1946, Gorman bought the Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, managing it to win the Allan Cup in 1949. He took figure skater Barbara Ann Scott on a tour after she won the figure skating gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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Ted Dey
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Edwin Peter Ted Dey was a boat-builder, ice arena owner, and hockey team owner. He was an owner of the Ottawa Senators mens ice hockey club from 1917 until 1923 and he and his brothers Frank Edgar Dey and William Ernest Dey built the various Deys Arenas where the Senators played until 1922–23. Born in Hull, Quebec, Ted Dey was one of three brothers and two born to Joseph Dey and Annie Buckley. His father was a boat-builder in Ottawa, the brothers, William, Frank and Ted followed their father into the boat-building business. The business, now named Dey Brothers had a works on the Rideau Canal at Theodore Street. The Dey brothers built their first indoor skating rink next to the works in 1884. The brothers would become involved in the new sport of ice hockey at their rink. Ted Dey himself played games for the Ottawa Hockey Club in 1887,1889 and 1890, the rink would also become home to its own team the Deys Rink Pirates, founding members of the Ottawa City Hockey League in 1890. The building of the Canada Atlantic Railway tracks along the Rideau Canal as far north as Rideau Street meant the demolition of the works in 1895. The brothers built a new works at Patterson Creek and Bank Street. The Deys Skating Rink was the location of the first Stanley Cup win for the Ottawa Hockey Club, a third arena was built near the original skating rink, on the opposite bank of the Rideau Canal, and was known as The Arena, opening in 1907. The second skating rink was demolished in 1920 after a fire. In 1916, Dey first became involved in the management of the club and he imposed cost-cutting measures and fired the coach Alf Smith and gave the coaching duties to player Eddie Gerard. In 1917, he bought a share of the club, along with Martin Rosenthal and Tommy Gorman. In 1919, he forced Rosenthal out and became majority owner, during his ownership, the Senators won three Stanley Cups, in 1920,1921 and 1923. Dey could not bear to watch the games of the 1923 Final, after the 1923 championship, Dey sold his ownership of the club and retired. He went to live in New York city, and eventually moved in 1932 to New Westminster and his father died in 1904 and his mother in 1920. His brother William died in 1920 and his older brother Frank survived him by a few months, passing away in July 1943

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T. Franklin Ahearn
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Thomas Franklin Ahearn, also known as Frank Ahearn was a Canadian businessman and politician. Ahearn is best known as an owner of the original Ottawa Senators National Hockey League hockey club, Ahearn was born in Ottawa, the son of Thomas Ahearn and Lilias Fleck. His father was a prominent Ottawa citizen who owned Ottawa Electric and he was educated at Kent Street Public School, Ottawa Collegiate and privately tutored. Around 1900, he organized the Buena Vista hockey team played on an open-air rink at Laurier Avenue and Bronson. In 1909, he married Norah Lewis, granddaughter of John Travers Lewis and he served in World War I, as a captain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, from 1914 until 1916, when he was injured and returned home. Mr. Ahearn became involved with the Ottawa Senators in the period when they won three Stanley Cups in four years between 1920 and 1923, in 1924, he bought out majority owner Tommy Gorman. In 1926-27, the Senators won the Cup with one of the most impressive rosters ever assembled and this imposing collection included Jack Adams, King Clancy, Alec Connell, Cy Denneny, Frank Finnigan, Hec Kilrea, Frank Nighbor and Hooley Smith. Winning the Stanley Cup was the last hurrah for the franchise, Louis Eagles, and operated the Senators as an amateur/semi-professional senior club. After one season in St. Louis, the Ottawa owners sought to suspend operations again and were turned down by the league, in the years of his owning the Ottawa Senators, his losses were over $200,000, a loss he said he never regretted. At the time of the dissolution of the NHL franchise, Ahearn was a minority owner of the consortium which owned the Ottawa Auditorium arena, like his father, Ahearn was involved in politics, and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1930 and 1935. Ahearn was a vice-president of the Ottawa Light, Heat and Power Company, in 1940, he resigned to become president of the Ottawa Electric Company. He also had his own firm, Rowatt-Ahearn Ltd. and became president of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company in 1938 after his father died and he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962 as a builder. He was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, Ahearn died in 1962 at his home at 7 Rideau Gate, Ottawa, and was interred in Beechwood Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Norah, son Thomas Trevor, T. Franklin Ahearn – Parliament of Canada biography Frank Ahearns biography at Legends of Hockey

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Victoria Cougars
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The Victoria Cougars were a major league professional ice hockey team that played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1911 to 1924, and in the Western Hockey League from 1924 to 1926. The team was based in Victoria, British Columbia, the original Victoria franchise of the PCHA, the Senators, were formed in 1911, and became the Aristocrats in 1913. That incarnation is best known for defeating the Stanley Cup champion Quebec Bulldogs in a 1913 exhibition series, the Aristocrats officially challenged the Toronto Blueshirts for the Cup the following year, but lost. In 1916 the team was forced to move to Spokane, Washington, the club folded the following year as the Spokane Canaries. A new team was formed in 1918 and again were dubbed the Aristocrats, in 1922 they changed their name to the Victoria Cougars. Led by coach Lester Patrick, the Cougars would finally win a Stanley Cup in 1925 against the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. The Cougars were the last non-NHL team to hoist the Stanley Cup as well as the last west coast team to win the Cup until the Anaheim Ducks won the Cup in 2007. They would attempt to repeat as champions in 1926 but they were unsuccessful as they lost the series to the NHLs Montreal Maroons. The WHL dissolved the year and the rights to many players from the Stanley Cup finalist team were purchased and relocated to Detroit. The new NHL franchise would retain the nickname Cougars in tribute, the Detroit Cougars would later be renamed the Detroit Falcons, and would ultimately be renamed the Detroit Red Wings. Among the notable players who wore the uniform of the Cougars were Hall of Famers Hec Fowler, Frank Foyston, Frank Fredrickson, Hap Holmes, Clem Loughlin, Harry Meeking and Jack Walker. All players and the manager were included on the new ring, List of ice hockey teams in British Columbia List of Stanley Cup champions Victoria Aristocrats of the PCHA Victoria Cougars of the PCHA Victoria Cougars of the WCHL & WHL

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Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
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The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy has been awarded 88 times to 53 different players since it was first awarded in 1925. The original trophy was donated to the league by Lady Byng of Vimy, three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL Awards ceremony after the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The trophy is named in honour of Marie Evelyn Moreton, wife of Viscount Byng of Vimy, Lady Byng, who was an avid hockey fan, decided to donate the trophy to the NHL in 1925. She decided the trophys first winner would be Frank Nighbor of the Ottawa Senators, late in the season, Lady Byng invited Nighbor to Rideau Hall, showed him the trophy, and asked him if the NHL would accept it as an award for its most gentlemanly player. When Nighbor said he thought it would, Lady Byng, much to Nighbors surprise, after Frank Boucher of the New York Rangers won the award seven times within eight years, Lady Byng was so impressed that she gave him the original trophy to keep. Lady Byng then donated a trophy in 1935–36. When Lady Byng died in 1949, the NHL presented another trophy, in 1962, the original trophy was destroyed in a fire at Bouchers home. Louis, and Ron Francis with three each, adam Oates has been a six-time finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy but has never won. Five players have won both the Lady Byng Trophy and the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP in the season, Buddy OConnor, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Wayne Gretzky. Mikita is also the player to win the Hart, Art Ross. Gretzky, Bobby Hull, and Martin St. Louis also won three awards, but not in the same season. Bobby and Brett Hull are the only combination to win the Hart. Bill Quackenbush, Red Kelly, and Brian Campbell are the only defensemen to have won the Lady Byng Trophy, with Kelly being the only one to win it multiple times. After Kelly, no defenseman won the award for a 58-year stretch which ended in 2012 when Campbell received the honor, no goaltender has ever won the award

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Boston Bruins
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The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team has been in existence since 1924, and is the leagues third-oldest team and is the oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth most of all-time with the Blackhawks and their home arena is the TD Garden, where they have played since 1995. The Bruins began play in the NHL on December 1,1924, in 1924, at the convincing of Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, the National Hockey League decided to expand to the United States. Adams had fallen in love with hockey while watching the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the WCHL champion Calgary Tigers. With the Montreal Maroons, the team was one of the NHLs first expansion teams, Adams first act was to hire Art Ross, a former star player and innovator, as general manager. Ross was the face of the franchise for the thirty years. In 1924, Adams directed Ross to come up with a nickname for the franchise, arthur Ross picked a name by himself. According to him, a Bruin is an animal and alliterative with Boston. The background of the Bruins black and gold colorway dates back to their founder, Black and gold were the colors of Adams’ grocery chain, which made Boston Bruins uniforms a spot to advertise on. On December 1,1924, the new Bruins team played their first NHL game against the Maroons, at Boston Arena, but the team only managed a 6–24–0 record in its first season. In their third season, 1926–27, the team markedly improved, the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Final despite finishing only one game above.500, but lost to the Ottawa Senators in the first Cup Final to be between exclusively NHL teams. In 1929 the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers to win their first Stanley Cup, standout players on the first championship team included Shore, Harry Oliver, Dit Clapper, Dutch Gainor and goaltender Tiny Thompson. The 1928–29 season was the first played at Boston Garden, which Adams had built after guaranteeing his backers $500,000 in gate receipts over the five years. The 1930s Bruins teams included Shore, Thompson, Clapper, Babe Siebert, the team led the leagues standings five times in the decade. In 1939, the changed its uniform colors from brown and yellow to the current black and gold. That year, Thompson was traded for rookie goaltender Frank Brimsek, Brimsek had an award-winning season, capturing the Vezina and Calder Trophies, becoming the first rookie named to the NHL First All-Star Team, and earning the nickname Mr. Zero

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Toronto St. Patricks
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The Toronto St. Patricks were a professional mens ice hockey team which began playing in the National Hockey League in 1919. The Toronto NHL franchise had previously held by the Arena Company. The rights to the Toronto franchise was purchased by a group of investors with links to a club called the St. Patricks. The new owners renamed the NHL franchise after the amateur club, the name remained until 1927, when the franchise was sold to a partnership of Conn Smythe and other Torontonian investors and renamed the Toronto Maple Leafs. The St. Pats organization had operated amateur hockey clubs in the Toronto area since the first decade of the 1900s, including the senior amateur St. Patricks team in the Ontario Hockey Association. The Toronto franchise of the National Hockey League, since the NHLs founding in 1917, had operated by the Arena Company. This temporary franchise won the Stanley Cup in 1918 and this new organization was duly admitted to the NHL as a full member in good standing, touching off a new round of litigation with Livingstone which forced the Arenas to unload most of their stars. They only won five games in 1918-19, and were forced to suspend operations in February, Livingstone won a $20,000 judgment against the Arena Company, which declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the bill. Before the 1919–20 season, general manager Charlie Querrie learned that the Arena Company wanted to sell, as an interim measure, Querrie changed the team name to the Tecumsehs on December 7,1919. The following day, Querrie reached agreement with the owners of the amateur St. Patricks club to purchase the franchise, frank Heffernan was named as manager. On December 13,1919, the NHL transferred the Toronto franchise to the Querrie-St. Patricks group, for the fee of $5,000. The incorporation date of the club was December 22,1919, and listed Fred Hambly, Percy Hambly, Paul Ciceri and Querrie with 99 shares each, and Richard Greer with 4 shares. This move was possible because the Arena Hockey Club was a self-contained corporation, additionally, with the poor performance of the previous season, and the turnover in franchise management, the franchise essentially started over. The club improved to second and third-place finishes in the halves of the schedule, in 1920–21, the club placed second and first in the schedule halves, enough to make a playoff appearance. Unfortunately, the Super Six of Ottawa would dominate the club 7–0 in a total goals playoff. The experience would be helpful in the season, however. In the 1921–22 season, the St. Pats made their first, after placing second in the league standings, the club upset first place Ottawa to win the NHL championship and face Vancouver in the final. A fifth and deciding game five was necessary in this series to determine who would win the Cup, after Vancouver won game one, 4–3, Babe Dye scored 4,50 into overtime of game two to give Toronto a 2–1 win

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Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens, Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux, Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, the franchise is one of the Original Six teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The teams championship season in 1992–93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise. They have won 24 Stanley Cups,22 of them since 1927, on a percentage basis, as of 2014, the franchise has won 25. Since 1996, the Canadiens have played their games at Centre Bell. The team previously played at the Montreal Forum which housed the team for seven decades and all, the Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose OBrien on December 4,1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the community in Montreal, composed of francophone players. The teams first season was not a success, as they placed last, after the first year, ownership was transferred to George Kennedy of Montreal and the teams fortunes improved over the next seasons. The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season, in 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season, the club began the 1930s decade successfully, with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 and 1931. The Canadiens and its rival, the Montreal Maroons, declined both on the ice and economically during the Great Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to interests in Cleveland, Ohio, the Maroons still suspended operations, and several of their players moved to the Canadiens. Led by the Punch Line of Maurice Rocket Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach in the 1940s, the Canadiens added ten more championships in 15 seasons from 1965 to 1979, with another dynastic run of four-straight Cups from 1976 to 1979. In the 1976–77 season, the Canadiens set two still-standing team records — for most points, with 132, and fewest losses, by losing eight games in an 80-game season. The next season, 1977–78, the team had a 28-game unbeaten streak, scotty Bowman, who would later set a record for most NHL victories by a coach, was the teams head coach for its last five Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s

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Punch Broadbent
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Harold Lawton Harry Punch Broadbent was a Canadian ice hockey player. Broadbent played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans in the National Hockey Association and he is generally regarded as one of the first true power forwards in NHL history. Broadbent married Leda Fitzimmons and had one daughter, Sally Ann Broadbent, Broadbent was awarded the Military Medal for his service in World War I. The right winger started his career with the Ottawa Senators, then of the National Hockey Association before World War I. He was seventh in the league in scoring his rookie year of 1913 and he scored three goals in the Stanley Cup finals against the Vancouver Millionaires in 1915 before going to the war for three and one-half years. After resuming his career and teaming with forwards Frank Nighbor and Cy Denneny, he starred for the Senators for six more seasons, though he was a holdout for most of the 1921 season, Broadbent came back to win the league scoring title in 1922. He also set a record that season by scoring goals in sixteen consecutive games, the streak began during a 10-0 rout of the Montreal Canadiens on Christmas Eve and lasted through to a 6-6 tie with Canadiens on February 15. As of 2015, it remains the NHL record, in 1925, along with veteran teammate Clint Benedict, Broadbent was sold by Ottawa to the expansion Montreal Maroons. Broadbent was the Maroons leading scorer that first season, including a game against the Hamilton Tigers. In his second season with the Maroons, the team won its first Stanley Cup championship against the Ottawa Senators and he was traded back to the Senators in 1928 with cash for Hooley Smith. He played for the New York Americans in 1929 and retired after that season, Broadbent finished his career with 172 goals and 58 assists in 360 professional games. After his playing career, he coached for years in the Ottawa City Hockey League. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, december 30,1920 - Rights transferred to Hamilton Tigers from Ottawa Senators by NHL with Sprague Cleghorn. Both Broadbent and Cleghorn refused to report, january 4,1921 - Rights traded to Montreal Canadiens by Hamilton Tigers for cash. February 21,1921 - Rights returned to Ottawa Senators by NHL, october 20,1924 - Traded to Montreal Maroons by Ottawa Senators with Clint Benedict for cash. October 7,1927 - Traded to Ottawa Senators by Montreal Maroons with $22,500 for Hooley Smith, october 15,1928 - Traded to New York Americans by Ottawa Senators for $10,000. January 1,1929 - Fined $25 by NHL for trying to start a fight in the penalty box during game with Montreal Canadiens, october 31,1929 - Officially announced retirement. List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame List of players with 5 or more goals in an NHL game McFarlane, the Story of the National Hockey League

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Clint Benedict
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Clinton Stevenson Praying Benny Benedict was a Canadian professional Lacrosse goalie, ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads and he was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask. He led league goaltenders in shutouts seven times over his professional career and he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Benedict played for the Ottawa Stars Lacrosse Club, winning the City Championship in 1911 and he later played professionally with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club earning distinction for his tenacity under fire. This helped him immeasurably in his transition into professional hockey, Benedict was one of the first great goalies in professional hockey and a great innovator in the sport. He was the first goalie to drop to his knees to stop the puck along the ice, at the time and this earned him the nickname Praying Benny. The first rule change the NHL made legalized his playing style, Benedict joined the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association in the 1912–13 season. Although the Senators had at the time future Hall of Famer Percy LeSueur as their starting goaltender and he played one more season as backup to LeSueur and took over as starting goaltender in the 1914–15 season. He led the league in Goals Against Average that season and the two seasons to start his career. He played 12 seasons overall for the Senators, after winning three Stanley Cups with the Senators, his career changed in the 1923–24 season. Benedict developed a problem with drinking, which at first was kept secret by the Senators, Benedict occasionally played for the Senators while under the effects. In the playoffs, Benedict and the Senators played poorly and were quickly eliminated, management withheld some of his salary for his behaviour. Benedict sued the team in return and the Senators countersued, revealing in court documents the extent of Benedicts behaviour, once the Ottawa papers found out about the court case, the secret was out. The two sides quickly settled to minimize the publicity, Benedicts career with the Senators was finished. On October 20,1924, Benedict was traded along with Punch Broadbent to the expansion Montreal Maroons and it was a new lease on life for Benedict who played for six seasons with the Maroons. In 1926, he won another Stanley Cup with the Maroons, on January 7,1930, he was hit by a shot from Howie Morenz in the face, breaking the bridge of his nose. Benedict was out of action for six weeks and he returned on February 20,1930 against the New York Americans wearing the mask. He played with a mask for five games in total and according to Douglas Hunter and his last game wearing a mask was on March 4,1930 when he got hit in the face during a goal-mouth scramble

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Babe Siebert
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He won the 1926 Stanley Cup championship with the Maroons, and was a member of the famous S Line, and another with the Rangers in 1933. A physical forward known for his ability while with the Maroons and Rangers. Siebert was named an all-star three times after the switch and won the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable player in 1937 as a member of the Canadiens, Siebert was named the head coach of the Canadiens upon his retirement as a player in 1939. He never coached a game as he drowned in Lake Huron prior to the 1939–40 NHL season, the league organized an all-star benefit game that raised $15,000 for Sieberts family. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1964, born in Plattsville, Ontario, Siebert grew up in the nearby community of Zurich, located on the eastern shores of Lake Huron. He became obsessed with hockey at an age, playing the game nearly every day. He played intermediate hockey in Zurich and Exeter before moving to Kitchener to play junior hockey, though his elder brothers mocked his simple playing style—he used his size and strength to push his way through opponents—Siebert was invited to join the Kitchener Greenshirts in 1922. He won the Ontario Hockey Association and eastern Canadian junior championships with Kitchener in 1922–23, after a year of senior hockey in Kitchener, he moved on to the Niagara Falls Cataracts, winning the OHA senior championship in 1924–25. Siebert was signed by the Montreal Maroons in 1925 and made his debut that same year. He finished second on the team with 16 goals as the Maroons finished second in the NHL standings, Montreal defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and Ottawa Senators in the playoffs to win the NHL championship. Siebert scored three points in the 1926 Stanley Cup Final as the Maroons defeated the Western Hockey League champion Victoria Cougars to win the Stanley Cup, when Hooley Smith arrived in Montreal in 1926–27, Siebert was paired with Smith and Nels Stewart. The trio were known as the S Line and emerged as one of the top scoring lines in the NHL, when Boucher responded to an elbow by slashing Siebert over the head, the latter player responded with repeated wild swings of his own stick at Boucher, injuring him. Sieberts best offensive season came in 1931–32 when he finished eighth in scoring with 39 points. It proved to be his last season with the Maroons, as the team was struggling financially and he went on to win his second Stanley Cup that year. He struggled offensively for much of the season, however, the trade finally happened early in the 1933–34 season as he was sent to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Vic Ripley and Roy Burmeister. The deal reunited Siebert with former S Line member Nels Stewart, after Eddie Shore was suspended for his assault on Ace Bailey, Bruins coach Art Ross shifted Siebert from left wing to defence. The switch rejuvenated his career, he enjoyed a season in 1934–35. Frequently remaining on the ice for games as one of Bostons key players

A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for an infringement of the rules. Most penalties are enforced by sending the …

The referee (top-left) signals a delayed penalty by raising an arm, and prepares to blow the whistle when a player from the team to be penalized (in white) gains control of the puck. Goaltender Jere Myllyniemi can be seen (right) rushing to the bench to send on an extra attacker.